Radiohead-Those Silly Boys 2007-11-08 by Intransit | 14 Comments | Though much has been made of Radiohead's decision to release their album for donations, the future use of this practice may be deterred a little by the results of a recent survey which found many people paying nothing or next-to-nothing for the album.
According to the survey, 62 percent of the people who downloaded In Rainbows in a four-week period last month opted not to pay a cent for the record. The remaining 38 percent voluntarily paid an average of $6. There were extreme outlier's of course - with Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor paying $5,000 for the record - but these numbers suggest that the band wouldn't have been much worse off if they had simply licensed the record to a major label.
In the face of internet downloading over the past few years, many have argued that people are opting not to support the major label system or wish to support artists directly. Unfortunately, these results suggest that for most, price is still the only real factor at play.
Courtesy of punknews.org
Survey: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8PiIXFRCjQxyvd84Q1c2xpuJFygD8SONJUG0
http://www.punknews.org/article/26397
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OMFG PEOPLE DIDNT PAY WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT
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IS IT ME OR IS THIS NOT NEWS
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This is news. I'm sure it catches the interest of a few people on here, and it's not a shitty promotion. They post shit like this on the actual news all the time, why would it be any different here?
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CAPSLOCKED
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its not news because everyone knew this was going to happen. of course people aren't going to pay anything for a download, which they have been accustomed to getting for free. i like to have the physical cd in my possesion and thats the only way ill pay for music.
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Doesn't really mean they're silly, does it.
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Well I guess Radiohead had to be the one to conduct this experiment.
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I didn't pay for it because I don't have a way to pay for items online. I've bought all of their albums except Pablo Honey, though, and intend on buying this one when the CD comes out. I'm sure there's a few people in my situation.
Anyways, when people hear In Rainbows is basically free, people who wouldn't normally listen to Radiohead's music are going to be curious enough to give it a download.
These stats aren't indicative of anything until the physical album is released.
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its not news because everyone knew this was going to happen
That doesn't stop it from being news...at all... in any way.
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I can't wait for Year Zero Pt. 2 to be pay whatever you want like In Rainbows...
Trent Reznor is so amazing.
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I hate NIN
not to mention that is off topic
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NIN are great, man.
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I totally copy/pasted it ftw there guy.
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